The Turn of the Key Quotes

“People do go mad, you know, if you stop them from sleeping for long enough...”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“Because it was the lies that got me here in the first place. And I have to believe that it’s the truth that will get me out.”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“The ghosts, she had sobbed. The ghosts wouldn’t like it.”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“Better to achieve perfect marks on an easy test than flunk a hard one, that was my motto.”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“I thought of all the mums who had dropped their children off talking about how exhausted they were, and the slight contempt I’d felt for them when all they had to deal with was one or two at the most, but now I realized what they’d been talking about. It wasn’t as physical as the work at the nursery, or as intense, but it was the way it stretched, endlessly, the way the needing never stopped, and there was never a moment when you could hand them over to your colleague and run away for a quick fag break to just be yourself. I”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“He was selfish. A selfish, self-centered man who had barely asked me a single personal question—not even how my journey had been. He just didn’t care.”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“I hadn't let the demons win. Not this time.”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“various pots of things like kimchi and harissa,”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“Maddie? Is something wrong?” “Don’t come here,” she whispered, still refusing to look at me. “It’s not safe.”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“I hadn’t even brought a book—all my reading matter was on the Kindle”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“He was my employer. He was my boss’s husband. And worst of all, he was . . . Jesus. I can’t bring myself to say it.”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“Mais j'étais crevée. J'étais tellement crevée. Passer la journée avec les filles à partir du lever du soleil était exténuant. Rien de comparable avec la crèche, et je ne l'avais pas pleinement anticipé ou compris jusqu'à cet instant. J'ai pensé à toutes les mères qui déposaient leurs enfants en se plaignant de leur épuisement, et au léger mépris que j'éprouvais pour elles en pensant qu'elles n'avaient à s'occuper que d'un, ou au maximum deux enfants. Désormais, je comprenais de quoi elles parlaient. Ce n'était pas aussi physique que le travail à la crèche, pas aussi intense, mais c'était la façon dont ça traînait en longueur, le besoin qui ne s'arrêtait jamais, et l'impossibilité de les refiler à ses collègues pour une brève pause cigarette, le temps de se retrouver.”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“was”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“Eighteen years of not being good enough, not being the daughter I was supposed to be, eighteen years of not measuring up.”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“Whiskey, you mean?”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“I told you to use your common sense, Rowan. If breaking into a poison garden is your idea of common”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“Kindness is as kindness does.”
― ruth ware, The Turn of the Key

“the”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“I had been expecting something ostentatious, a McMansion, maybe, or a sprawling log-built ranch.”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“decades, lived”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“calendar”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“came”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“Cairngorms”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key